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MARTINE McCutcheon has broken down in tears after marking a milestone with her son Rafferty. The Love Actually and EastEnders actress, 46, has an adorable seven-year-old son and she shared a video as she dropped him off at pre-prep. Sat in her car, the brunette beauty wiped her eyes as she welled up with tears and shared: “I’ve just dropped Rafferty off to his prep-prep school for the last time. “It’s a whole other building where all the little bubbas, nurseries and pre-preps are, and it’s the last time he’ll ever be there. “He bounced off and was like ‘yeah I’m ready’ but I don’t know if I was quite ready for that last little walk in. He was great.” More on Martine McCutcheon GLAM GIRL Martine McCutcheon looks slimmer than ever in skinny jeans and blazer on day out 'scary and tense' Martine McCutcheon and Jack renewing wedding vows after Mafia run-in Martine , who rose to fame as Tiffany Mitchell in the … [Read more...] about Slimmer than ever Martine McCutcheon breaks down in tears as she marks milestone with son Rafferty

Stacey Solomon is set to return to Celebrity Gogglebox alongside fiancé Joe Swash . The couple - who will tie the knot in their Essex home later this month - have proven to be a huge hit on the celebrity edition of the hit Channel 4 series. Taking to social media yesterday (July 4), Stacey gave fans a glimpse into the show's upcoming episode, as she filmed in her living room. In the clip, 40-year-old Joe was seen sitting on the sofa alongside Stacey's dad Dave, who was looking after the couple's children. The Loose Women star, 32, went on to film the pair before displaying huge black out windows behind her dad. Stacey Solomon has given fans a glimpse into filming Celebrity Gogglebox The pair were joined by Stacey's dad Dave as they filmed Alongside the clip, Stacey wrote: "Now we are filming Gogglebox, they black it all out because it's too bright outside. "Grandad is on pickle watch but right now he's just eating our snacks." The Channel 4 show - … [Read more...] about Stacey Solomon shares sneak peak of Celebrity Gogglebox filming with fiancé Joe Swash

“D uck and cover!” a mechanized voice screamed. The ground shook and the window rattled. I rolled from my bed to the floor of my trailer and felt for the armor I’d forgotten in my office. I lay there and sweated and swore. The voice from the loudspeaker urged me to get away from the windows. I was inside a tin can. I crawled to the door. My hand was on the knob when I realized I was naked. The next impact knocked the air conditioner to the floor. I grabbed a light-blue cotton robe and bolted. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. I raced along a row of sandbags, one hand holding the robe closed. The duck-and-cover bunkers were 100 feet away. Another series of explosions, and I hit the rocks. I was lying there, panting, when I saw a bright-yellow bunker tucked behind a row of sandbags and palm trees. I was up, running, full out. My robe fell open and flew out behind me. Another hit. I was 20 feet away. Ten. Five. I crashed into the … [Read more...] about What I Wish I’d Known About Sexual Assault in the Military

Here comes the girl. In Marvel’s latest outing, Thor: Love And Thunder, Chris Hemsworth’s Asgard warrior sees old flame Dr Jane Foster pick up his hammer and gain superpowers. ‘It was definitely pretty radical,’ says Natalie Portman, who returns as Foster, adopting the new moniker the Mighty Thor. ‘I think Taika [Waititi, the director] and Marvel were like, “OK, so now you’re turning 40, let’s make you a superhero!” ‘Definitely unexpected that this would happen at this point in my life but very, very cool that it did.’ Portman is in London for the premiere of this latest Thor movie. So too is Waititi, who knocked it out of the park with 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok and does the same here on an exhilarating Guns N’ Roses-scored galactic adventure. Oddly, both have only now discovered that GN’R are currently touring the UK. ‘One of my big wishes is that they come see the film,’ says Waititi, sporting a flower-print jumpsuit and medallion. Portman agrees: ‘I definitely had a school … [Read more...] about Natalie Portman on ‘breaking boundaries’ and the ‘pervasive queerness’ in Thor: Love and Thunder

Calvin Harris is engaged to Vick Hope after just five months of dating. The pair sparked engagement rumours when Vick was spotted wearing a dazzling ring on her ring finger at the Chelsea Flower Show on May 23. The DJ and TV presenter started dating earlier this year, and it’s reported that Harris proposed a few weeks ago in Ibiza. "Calvin proposed to Vick under his favourite tree on his farm Terra Masia in Ibiza," a source told the Sun. "Vick said yes immediately, she is madly in love with Calvin and could not be any happier." Vick Hope looked besotted with Calvin Harris at the Chelsea Flower Show, but she turned him down years ago ( Image: WireImage) Strictly Come Dancing star Vick might be “madly in love” with Calvin now, but that hasn’t always been the case - the presenter actually turned Harris down years ago because she was “shallow”. Since getting rejected by Vick the first time, Harris has gone through a massive glow-up, and now he’s managed to … [Read more...] about Calvin Harris’ glow-up as ‘shallow’ Vick Hope turned him down 10 years before engagement

The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It’s about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally televised general-election debate in the United States. The story is that Kennedy looked great, which is true, and Nixon looked terrible, which is also true—and that this visual difference had an unexpected electoral effect. As Theodore H. White described it in his hugely influential book The Making of the President 1960 , which has set the model for campaign coverage ever since, “sample surveys” after the debate found that people who had only heard Kennedy and Nixon talking, over the radio, thought that the debate had been a tie. But those who saw the two men on television were much more likely to think that Kennedy—handsome, tanned, non-sweaty, poised—had won. Historians who have followed up on this story haven’t found data to back … [Read more...] about When Donald Meets Hillary: Who Will Win the Debates?

Calvin Harris popped the question to Radio 1's Vick Hope in the romantic setting of his Ibiza farm a few weeks ago. The DJ and his new fiancée looked loved up as they took a stroll around RHS Chelsea Flower Show earlier this week. But although he may be a heartthrob now, our boy Calvin has had a serious glow up over the years and was even turned down initially by Vick when she was 19 . In an honest interview in 2018, Vick said: "He looked how he used to look, I was shallow, I was 19. "It turns out Calvin Harris was going to turn into an Adonis." Little did she know at the time that the Scottish DJ would eventually ask her to marry him. Calvin played at Radio 1's Big Weekend yesterday where he was joined by the station's drive time host . But before Vick, the music legend has had a series of famous girlfriends over the years . Inside Calvin Harris toxic splits with Taylor Swift and Rita Ora Rita Ora and Calvin first started dating in 2013, and Rita described … [Read more...] about Inside Calvin Harris’ toxic splits with Taylor Swift and Rita Ora before his engagement